Mackenzie, S. (2009) The seductions of conformity: the criminological importance of a phenomenology of exchange. In: Lippens, R. and Crewe, D. (eds.) Existentialist Criminology. Routledge-Cavendish. ISBN 9780415467711
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Abstract
Following the emotions and exchange theories of Edward J. Lawler, the paper suggests that: civility can be viewed as a collective action problem; contributions and withdrawals in respect of this public good depend in some measure upon reciprocity; civility can therefore be represented as a structure of exchange; processes of exchange can engender emotional commitment to the object of the exchange, and a perception of joint enterprise in efficacy between self and exchange partners; this emotional commitment is stronger when the exchange relation is characterised by a voluntarism in attachment; and conformity to exchange norms therefore has considerable phenomenological seductions.
| Item Type: | Book Sections |
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| Keywords: | Crime, criminology, emotions, exchange, reciprocity, phenomenology, existentialism |
| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Mackenzie, Professor Simon |
| Authors: | Mackenzie, S. |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences |
| Research Group: | The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research |
| Publisher: | Routledge-Cavendish |
| ISBN: | 9780415467711 |
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